Disease Terms
A worldwide spread of a new disease.
What is a Pandemic?
living organisms that can transmit infectious pathogens between humans, or from animals to humans
What is a vector?
a person who has one copy of a mutated (changed) disease-causing gene but has no symptoms or mild symptoms
What is a carrier?
An infectious agent is transferred from a reservoir to a susceptible host by direct contact or droplet spread.
What is Direct Transmission?
It aims to prevent disease or injury before it ever occurs.
What is Primary Prevention?
Bacteria, Fungi or Parasites
What are examples of a Pathogen?
Inanimate objects that can become contaminated with infectious agents and serve as a mechanism for transfer between hosts
What is Fomite?
Person who can transmit the agent during the incubation period before clinical illness begins
What is an incubatory carrier?
It refers to the transfer of an infectious agent from a reservoir to a host by suspended air particles, inanimate objects (vehicles), or animate intermediaries (vectors).
What is Indirect Transmission?
Passive prevention strategies are those that do not require action by an individual for protection to occur.
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
the infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, means of transmission, portal of entry and susceptible.
What steps do the chain of infection include?
It is the habitat in which the agent normally lives, grows, and multiplies
What is a Reservoir?
those who never experience symptoms despite being infected
bacteria or viruses that are most commonly transmitted through small respiratory droplets
What is an Airborne Transmission?
Screening to identify diseases in the earliest. stages, before the onset of signs and symptoms, through measures such as using radiology/regular blood pressure testing
What is Secondary Prevention?
A particular instance of a disease or other problem.
What is a case?
Diseases caused by germs that spread between animals and people.
What is Zoonosis?
Those who have recovered from their illness but remain capable of transmitting to others
What is a Convalescent Carrier?
an animal that carries a pathogen from one host to another without being infected itself.
What is Mechanical Transmission?
Tertiary prevention aims to reduce the effects of the disease once established in an individual.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
What is a suspect case?
A substance used as a medium for administration of a pharmaceutical.
What is a Vehicle?
One who harbors an infectious organism (coming and going)
What is an Intermittent Carrier?
direct contact, droplets, a vector such as a mosquito, a vehicle such as food, or the airborne route
What do the Modes of Transmission include?
Health care services that help you keep, get back, or improve skills and functioning for daily living that have been lost or impaired because you were sick, hurt, or disabled.
What is Rehabilitation?